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SENATE STANDS
By PRESIDENT
Gore Resolution Is Killed
by Vote of 68 to 14.
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TURBULENT SESSION HELD
Parliamentary Mixup Held to
Give Result Effect of
"Scotch Verdict."
WHITE HOUSE IS AROUSED
House Committee Moves To
ward Meeting Wilson's
Wishes in Vote Today.
VOTE II V WHICH SENATE LAID
W)Rli nUSOLlTION OS TABLE.
Ayes Ashurst, Bankhead,
Beckham, Brandegee, BroussarA.
Burleigh. Chilton. Clark of Wyo
ming, Clarke of Arkansas, Colt.
Culberson. Curtis, Dillingham,
I.)u Pont, Fletcher, Gore. Harding,
Hardwick, Hitchcock, Hollis,
Hughes, Husting, James, John
son of Maine, Johnson of South
Dakota, Kern, Ianc, Lee of
Maryland, Lewis, Lodge. McLean,
Martin, Martine, Myers, Nelson,
Newlands, Oliver, Overman, Owen,
Page, Phelan. Pittman, Poindex
ter, Pomerene, Ransdell. Heed.
Shafroth. Sheppard, Shields, Sim
mons. Smith of Arizona, Smith of
Georgia, Smith of Maryland,
Smith of Michigan, Smith of
South Carolina, Sterling, Stone,
Swanson, Thomas, Thompson,
Tillman, Underwood, Vardaman,
"Wadsworth, Walsh, AVarren,
AVeeks. Williams. Total, 68.
Nays Borah, Chamberlain,
Clapp, Cummins, Kail, Gallinger,
Gronna, Jones, La Follette, Mc
Cumber. Norris, O'Gorman, Sher
man, Works. Total, 14.
WASHINGTON, March 3. By a
vote of 68 to 14 the Senate today car
ried out President Wilson's w'sh and
killed Senator Gore's resolution to
warn Americans off armed belligerent
ships.
In a turbulent scene, such as is sel
dom witnessed in the Senate, voting
proceeded, with Senators shouting ob
jections, futilely demanding recogni
tion to explain their positions and
making hot retorts to each other, all
of which were out of order.
At one time so many Senators were
shouting for the Vice-President's rec
ognition that the sergeant-at-arms
was called to restore quie,
Discussion .Follows Vote.
After having maneuvered for two
days to get the resolution in such par
liamentary position that it was dis
posed of without debate, the Senate
then proceeded to a general discussion
of the subject, which continued all
afternoon, to the dismay of Adminis
tration supporters. There were free
expressions of opinion that the Sen
ate's action, because the vote actually
was taken on a motion to table the
Gore resolution, with a correction by
the author and a substitute by Sena
tor McCumber, was in effect a "Scotch
verdict," and had not actually accom
plished the purpose of the President.
Such statements aroused the Presi
dent's friends, who feared they would
'produce an effect exactly opposite to
that intended. It was intended to give
notice to the world that the Senate
stands behind the President in his de
mands on Germany for the rights of
Americans traveling the seas.
House Committee Acts.
In the House, however, the foreign
affairs committee, by a vote of 17 to
2, took a longer step toward meeting
fully the President's wishes. It voted
to report the McLemore warning reso
lution, with the recommendation that
it be tabled. In the report the com
mittee asserts that the Constitution
imposed the conduct of diplomatic ne
gotiations on the President, and "with
this practice the committee does not
feel it proper for the House of Rep
resentatives to interfere."
It probably will be voted on in the
House tomorrow under a special rule.
Administration forces are confident
of a complete victory.
At the White House satisfaction
was expressed with the Senate's
action.
Senator Gore voted for the motion
to table, and declared he considered
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Second in. Command Is Among Pris
oners Taken at Sidi Barani;
Ammunition Captured, Too.
CAIRO, via London. March 3. Sidi
Barani, a town in Western Egypt, was
reoccupied without opposition by Brit
ish forces yesterday, after being for
three, months in the hands of tribes
men commanded by Turkish officers.
Further information indicates that
the Turkish casualties on February 26
were heavy. Thirty-three thousand
rounds of ammunition, a machine gun,
GO camels and a large quantity of dates
were captured.
Among the prisoners were Gasfar
Pasha, the second in command, and
Nehad Bey and about 30 others.
The British casualties included two
officers killed and six wounded.
FREED CONVICTS "FLUSH"
Fifteen Liberated at Walla Walla
Carry Away $704.
OLTMPIA, Wash.. March 3. (Spe
cial.) Instead of the usual prison gift
of $5 each, 15 inmates of the state peni
tentiary at Walla Walla took away
with them a total of $704, earned in
wages, when released this week. The
leading capitalist of the crowd carried
$92.70, the next $85.10, six had cash
varying from $60 to $80 each, and the
lowest $15.60, all earned at the rate
of 50 cents a day and board on pub
lic road work in Douglas county.
Another detachment of 30 men has
been ordered from the prison to the
honor camp, which will close on com
pletion of work in that section of the
state, July 1. Twenty prisoners have
been selected to be sent, April 1, to
the Meskill quarry, in Lewis county.
SACK SHORTAGE IS FACED
Umatilla Wlieatgrowers, Hit by War,
Seek Xew Handling Method.
PENDLETON'. Or., March 3. (Spe
cial.) Umatilla County farmers are fac
ing a serious situation this year. Not
onlv will they have to pay 15 cents
apiece for sacks if they get them but
they are not at all certain they may
be able to secure them. All contracts
for sacks have a war clause inserted,
end there are practically no sacks on
tho maricet now.
The need for sacks in the war zone
has taken the entire supply, and every
thing that goes to the trouble zone is
double sacked for protection. Millions
of sacks are used for building fortifi
cations. Umatilla wheatgrowers are looking
for some other way of handling their
crop.
HOOD RIVER FEEDS ROBINS
Snowfall Drives Thousands of Birds
Into City.
HOOD RIVER. Or., March 3. (Spe
cial.) Thousands of red-breasted
robins and other species of birds have
flocked into the city from the snow
covered valley. In large flocks the
birds have settled down on vacant lots,
where the snowfall of the past two
days has melted. The birds have fed
in garbage cans of local residents.
Tho heavy snowfall melted as it fell
on the low levels of the city. However.
E. W. Birge, a West Side rancher and
co-operative weather observer, whose
place is two miles southwest of the
city, reports a depth of seven inches.
A foot of new snow has fallen in the
upper valley.
WOMAN SUED FOR ALIMONY
Wife of 35 Years Awarded Property
AVI tli Decree.
S13ATTLE, Wash., March 3. Unless
Mrs. Mary Jane Wedgwood, 60 years
old. pays $-5 alimony before March 10
to her ex-husband. William Wedgwood,
66 years old. she will be punished for
contempt of court, providing that she
cannot show that she is unable to make
the payment.
The Wedgwoods were married nearly
5 years ago. Mrs. Wedgwood recently
obtained a divorce, custody of two chil
dren, title to a lodging-house and 20
acres of land, but the court ordered
her to pay her ex-husband $25 a month
alimony during the rest of his life.
WOMAN IS CLUB SECRETARY
licwis Commercial Organization Has
Uie-Wlre Membership,
MORTON". "Wash.; March 3. (Special.)
Lie wis, the town farthest east In East
ern Lewis County, has a. woman secre
tary for its Commercial Club. There
are but a small number of people in
Lewis proper, and a few more than 100
voters in the entire precinct, yet the
Lewis Commercial Club has more than
100 active and live-wire members. The
officers are Charles L. Hall. Sr., presi
dent; J. A. Combs, vice-president, and
Mrs. K. "V. Collins, secretary-treasurer.
WIDOW AND SON TRY TO DIE
Pair Rescued After Leaping Into
So a Because of Hunger.
SAN' FRANCISCO. March 3. Mrs.
Gustave Levy, a widow, and her son.
Ray. 24 years old. jumped today from
Land's End into Golden Gate strait,
but were rescued by a woman and a
policeman.
Ray Levy told the police ho and his
mother had been without food for two
days, .
Members Confused by
Parliamentary Snarl.
VOTES STRANGELY AT ODDS
Senators Who Agree Arrayed
on Opposite Sides.
POSITIONS ARE EXPLAINED
"President Not Sustained," Says
Chamberlain; "Action Not Signif
icant," Says Lane; Korali Ite
bents Being "Hobbled."
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, March 3. That the United
States Senate did not know what it
was doing when it voted today to table
Senator Gore's substitute for his own
resolution is evident from an analysis
of the vote and by explanations of
fered by various Senators for their
votes.
The Oregon Senators, for instance,
agree on the main issue involved, but
they voted differently. The Montana
Senators differ on the issue but voted
together. Senator Borah and Senator
Lodge, who hold identical views on
the rights of Americans to travel on
belligerent ships, voted on opposite
sides of the question.
Confusion Is General.
There was similar confusion all
down the line, resulting from the sud
den injection of the Gore substitute
after the rollcall had been ordered. It
was read hurriedly by the clerk when
the Senate was In a turmoil. Many
Senators did not hear or understand it,
but were immediately called on to
vote. ,
Many Senators voted on the assump
tion that they were voting on the
original Gore: resolution or something
similar, when, in fact, they were vot
ing on the direct reverse.
. Chamberlain Explains Vote.
Senator Chamberlain voted against
tabling the resolution, and later when
asked to explain his stand dictated
the following statement:
"I thought the matter of such great
importance that it should be discussed
at length for the benefit of Congress
and the country. I not only favored
discussion, but favored some measure
serving notice upon American citizens
that if they travel on armed vessels
they would do so at their own risk.
The Gore resolution as amended was
exactly the opposite of the original
resolution which the President wanted
tabled.
"The result of tabling the amended
resolution leaves the matter unsettled,
and the President is not sustained. The
Senate, as a. matter of fact, in tabling
the substitute resolution tabled what
the President seemed to want."
"I do not think there is any signifi
cance at all to the action of the Senate
today," said Senator Lane, of Oregon,
who voted to table the Oore resolution.
"It did not strengthen the President.
(Concluded on Page w. t'olmnn 1.).
More Than 600 Present, Represent
ing State, .Militia, and
Civilian Life.
SALEM, Or., March 3. (Special.)
The most brilliant event of the social
season at the state capital was the
grand military ball, which took place
tonight in the Salem Armory. The ball
was given by the Cherrians In compli
ment to the members of Company M,
Oregon National Guard.
More than 600 persons, representing
all departments of the State Adminis
tration, the military and those in civil
life were in attendance. The affair
was formal.
Governor Withycombe and Mrs.
Wlthycombe led the grand march be
neath the canopy of flags and bunting
with which the Armory was decorated.
The famous "homeward bound" pen
nant of the battleship Oregon, more
than 300 feet in length, was a part of
tho decorative scheme.
Scores of guests from Portland, Al
bany and other Oregon cities were in
attendance.
DINERS ON 2 COASTS TALK
Princeton Men at Denver, Too, Take
Part in Entertainment.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. Prince
ton men banqueting in this city and
Denver listened tonight to the speeches,
cheering and the singing of the Prince
ton anthem by members of the Glee
Club at a banquet being held simul
taneously at the Princeton Club, of
New York City.
Over the trans-continental telephone
wires, the alumni listened to talks by
President Hibben, of the university,
and Henry Van Dyke, minister to the
Netherlands, who is a graduate of
Princeton, and others. Responses were
flashed back from the rim of the Pa
cific Ocean.
GERMAN RAID PLANE LOST
Frcncli Pick l"p Machine in Sea,
One Observer Being Dead.
LONDON. March 3. A German sea
plane returning from England was yes
terday picked up by the French three
miles north of Middelkerker Bank, off
the Belgian coast, it was announced in
an official statement issued tonight.
One of the -observers of the machine
was drowned and one was taken pris
oner. The seaplane dropped Wednesday,
the official statement adds.
T. R. AT PORT OF SPAIN
Roosevelts Welcomed by Represent
ative or Trinidad Governor.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 3.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs.
Roosevelt arrived here today and were
welcomed by a representative of the
Governor and several prominent local
citizens.
Tliey will remain here 10 days, but
desiring a rest from public functions,
will accept only a limited number of
invitations.
Vienna Orders Jircad Recipe.
VIENNA, via London, March 3.
Twenty per cent of corn meal must be
added by bakers to rye and wheat
bread after March 6.
SAVING THE PRESIDENT FKOM A BAD
iAi','''.-: .
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sU YrvV . COT
urtland Home.
ANOTHER WILL COST $50,000
$500,000 Trade Involves Farm
and City Realty Hojdings.
GEARHART STORY REVIVED
New $100,000 Hotel Said to Be De
cided On Scotch Syndicate Is
Reported to Be Seeking Im
mense Timber Acreage.
OUTSTANDING EVENTS IX
PORTLAND REALTY MAR
KET YESTERDAY.
Announcements made that F. J.
Cobbs has ordered $100,000 resi
dence on Portland Heights, and
that Colonel Henry Cabell is
planning $50,000 home near Wash
ington Park.
Realty transaction amounting
to $500,000 on both sides, is closed,
involving largest wheat land sale
of many months and transfer of
valuable property in and about
Portland.
Reported that Scotch syndicate
is in market for 1,000,000 acres of
Oregon timber land at $80 an
acre.
Fact becomes known that $100,
000 building is being planned for
erection on site of destroyed
Gearhart Hotel on Oregon beach.
.Directors of Portland Union
Stock Yards Company order plans
for group of buildings to coet
$150,000.
BY CHESTER A. MOORES.
Following closely upon the announce
ment in The Oregonian that the Ladd
Estate Company bad decided to open
up its $10,000,000 worth of unimproved
properties in Portland, and that offi
cials of the United. States National
Bank had definitely arranged to con
struct a $250,000 or $300,000 home on
the site at the northwest corner of
Sixth and Stark streets, for which it
this week paid $275,000, came impor
tant announcements yeBterday.
Blr Deal Closed.
It was announced that a $100,
000 residence is about to be erect
ed on Portland Heights for F. J.
Cobbs. and a $50,000 residence near
Washington Park for Colonel Henry
Cabell; that a $500,000 deal involving
Portland and rural properties had been
closed: that plans have been ordered
for a $100,000 Gearhart hotel building
and a $150,000 group of buildings
on the Portland stockyards prop
erty, and that a, gigantic timber sale
q brewing, as well as several large
deals in inside Portland property, at
(Concluded on ratce 16. Column 4.)
HOLE.
Construction to Begin Soon, and
Another Will Go Vp Next Year
if Acreage Is Secured.
MEDFOKD, Or.. March 3. (Special.)
A telegram received today by the
Medford Commercial Club from S5. K.
Skliris, beet su;&r manufacturer of Salt
Lake City, gives positive assurance
that a beet sugar factory will be
erected in the Rogue River Valley be
tween Tolo and Medford in 1916.
If required acreage Is secured a
second factory will bo built between
Medford and Ashland in 191?. Accord
ing to the telegram the company rep
resented by Mr. Skliris has secured
beet seed for 7000 acres. The ma
chinery has been purchased and is now
in fcan Francisco, and the acreage al
ready pledged to the local Commercial
Club is sufficient to warrant construc
tion' of the plant.
C. K. Gates, chairman of the beet
sugar committee of the Commercial
Club, announced tonight that the tele
gram removed all doubt regarding the
erection of the factory in 1916; that
unlimited capital is behind the new
company, and work . on the factory
would start in a few weeks.
The Oregon-Utah Sugar Company,
headed by Bishop Nibley, of Salt Lake
City, negotiated with the local com
mittee regarding a beet sugar factory,
but finally selected Grants Pass as the
site for their plant. The Skliris com
pany is said to be supported by the
Havemeyer interests of New York.
GERMAN SCORES AIR RAIDS
Attacks on Oi?n Entente Towns De
clared Useless Butchery.
GENEVA, via Paris. March 3. The
bombardment of open towns in France
and England by aircraft was sharply
criticised yesterday in tho Parliament
of the Duchy of Baden by the progres
sive deputy, Herr Hummel. A violent
scene followed the deputy's remarks.
' Herr Hummel declared that attacks
on such towns on the pretext of re
prisals was only the useless butchery of
peaceful citizens. reputy Kolb, Social
ist, called attention to what he termed
the "brutal treatment of the new re
cruits, who are shortly to be sent to
the trenches."
NEGRO "SHRINE" ENJOINED
Court Upholds Order Prohibiting
Use of Xante of Order.
ATLANTA. Ga., March 3. The State
Supreme Court today upheld a tem
porary injunction granted in Fulton
County Superior Court on behalf of the
Yarab Temple of tho Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, a Masonic organization, which
prevents a negro organization from
using the name "Ancient, Egyptian
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine of North and South America."
The case now is to go before a Ful
ton County petit Jury for decision of
the facts.
Employes Receive Wage Increase.
KANE. Pa.. March 3. The Warren
Refining Company announced today
that its employes had received an ad
vance of 10 per cent in wares. Tho
Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company
at Sheffield also announced an increase
of 15 cents a day for all outside em
ployes. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TEST KT: DAY'S Maximum temperature. 39
degree; minimum, :i4 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain; southwest winds.
War.
Loss of life on French cruiser La rrovence
close to 3 J 30. Pace 1.
Russians carry Bit Us by assault. Pace
Battle of Verdun is vast inferno. I'ace 2.
French make gain nrar Douaumont; battle
again violent: Page 2.
National.
Analysis of vote fHowb Senate did not know
what it as doing on Oore resolution,
rage 1.
Senate tabl s Oore resolution by vote of 6S
to 14. Page 1.
BattWhip of Atlantic fleet idle for want of
men. I'aisV 5.
Southern Pacific representative fays Oregon
A- California land grant to date has been
'losing venture." Page 4.
lometle.
Hallway business breaks all records. Pace "I.
Mayors of SO larite cities unite for National
defne. Page 3.
Mrs. Howe says Mrs. Eaton's charges are
due to jealousy. Page 3.
Dr. Lyman's bail fixed at $100,000. Page 3.
(iportf.
Salarv fups over Fed peace pact drags on.
Page 12.
Coast League players may have to pay own
fares west In future. Page 1'2.
Pacific North vreKt.
Beet sugar plant is promised Medford.
Page 1.
Former friend turns on Seattle Mayor,
charging broken plcdue. Page .".
Drafts of two Indian bills discussed at
Klamath Falls. Page 6.
Addison Bennett finds prosperity in Myrtle
Point. Page 6.
Oregon's flax acreage will be greatly in
creased. Page 1 .
More than 6H attend brilliant military ball
at Salem. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
English speculators are large buyers of
Oregon hons. Page 17.
News from Washington sends up Chicago
-wheat prices. Page 17.
Stork trading quiet, but at higher levels.
Page 17.
Increased commodity price stimulate con
sumption. Page 17.
Big shipyard at Linn ton is planned : two
building deals pend. Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Wave of big realty deals Is here. Page 1.
Nadine Velguth gives last money to charity
beforo suicide. Page 7.
T. B. WUrox declines offer of Chamber
President v, but promises to join board.
Page 7-
Authors of sex suggestive pictures and lit
erature castigated.
Retailors worried about price slump after
war. J'age .
Weather report, data and forecast. Paga 17.
Disaster Takes Lead in
Fatalities of Sea.
4000 ABOARD, 810 SAVED
Ministry of Marine Admits
Large Number of Men.
In Ship's Company.
VICTIMS ARE SOLDIERS
Ordinary Capacity of Vessel
Largely Exceeded Because
of Short Voyage.
REPENT MARINE IMSASTEnS
INVOLVING CHEAT LOSS
OK LIKE.
Titanic, sunk in collision with
iceberg in Atlantic, April H.
1912; 1395 lost.
Lusitania. torpedoed by Ger
man submarine off Irish coast.
May 7. 1913; 1206 lost.
General S I o c u m. excursion
steamer, burned in Kast River,
Xew York, Juno 13, 1901; nearly
1000 lost.
French liner La Bourgroyne.
sunk in collision with eteamship
Cromartyshire. July 4. 1S9S; 5S0
lost.
Japanese liner Kiokti Maru,
sunk off Japanese coast, Septem
ber 12. 1912; 1000 lost.
Canadian Pacific liner Kmpress
of Ireland, sunk in collision with
collier in St. Lawrence River. May
29. 1914; more than 1000 lost.
Uranium liner Volturno, burned
in midocean, October 9, 1913; 136
lost.
PARIS, March 3. It was announced
at the French Ministry of Marine to
day that there were nearly 4000 men
on board the French auxiliary cruiser
Provence when she was sunk in the
Mediterranean on February 2G.
It was said that on board the Prov
ence were the staff of the Third
Colonial Infantry Regiment, the Third
Battalion, the Second Company of tho
First Battalion, the Second Machine
Gun Company and one extra company.
Loss of 3130 Lives Indicated.
As the Ministry of Marine, on February-
29, announced that the number
of survivors of the Provence disaster
was estimated at 870, it is indicated
that upwards of 3130 lives were lost.
This great number of casualties
makes the disaster the greatest on.
the sea in modern times. Up to the
present the largest number of lives
ever lost in one wreck was when the
White Star 'liner Titanic struck an
iceberg off the Newfoundland banks
on April 14, 1912, and sank with a
death loss of 1595. The rescued num
bered 743.
The French Ministry of Marine bad
previously issued no statement as to
the number of persons on the Prov
ence when she went down.
Normal Capacity Exceeded.
The vessel, however, when in the
trans-Atlantic service, could . carry
1960 persons, including the crew, and
it has been presumed that as she was
transporting troops between ports not
far apart, she was carrying a number
of men larger than her normal
capacity.
P0INCARE VISITS VERDUN
French. President Rewards Men
Who Destroyed Zeppelin.
PARIS, March 2. (Delayed in trans
mission.) President Poincare Tuesday
visited Revigny. a town nine miles
northwest of Bar le Due, in order per
sonally to compliment and to present
watches to the officers and the men
of the armed motor car who, February
20, destroyed by gunfire the Zeppelin
LZ-77.
The President then went to Verdun
and with General Joffre and General
Petain inspected the lines in the re
gion of the French fortress. After con
gratulating the troops on their bravery
in the recent fighting, the President
returned to Paris.
French Decorate Kitchener.
LONDON. March 3. Field Marshal
Karl Kitchener. British Secretary of
Slate for War, received today the grand
cordon of the Legion of Honor Trom
the French Ambassador at the War
Office, it was officially announced tonight,